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Friday, July 24, 2009

Friday, July 24, 2009

Sure, torso cakes are kind of freaky, and eating cake babies can be off-putting, but what else is there for the baby shower hostess who wants to creep out her guests under the guise of serving a scrumptious treat? Is there nothing new under the Wrecky sun?(Hah, like you don't know the answer to that.)

Presenting...the sonogram cake!

Thank you, edible image printing and 3D ultrasound imaging! Who knew two technologies could come together to create something so deliciously horrifying?

Now, don't get me wrong: I appreciate that sonograms allow moms to get an advance viewing of their little bun in the oven - I do. And most of these cakes are actually really well made, too. But let's face it: these new 3D sonograms look like they were directed by M. Night Shyamalan.

Look into the hollow eye sockets of this shadowy visage and tell me the truth...

...are you feeling hungry?

And check out the contrast on this one: it's all sweet pastel ribbons & bows, but with a doorway into the Twilight Zone:

That bear's face says it all: "What kind of filling did you use?!?"

Compared to these, the more traditional sonograms look positively cuddly. They still make for some Wrecktastic cakes, though:

Hmm. What do you suppose it really is, Hannah M.?

And if you think that airbrushing is bad, check this out:

I think that's supposed to be a side view of the mom's torso, which makes her...a headless nudist with a skin condition? Mmm, tasty.

And you know it didn't take long for someone to combine these two ideas:

Reminds me of my niece looking at the sonogram of her sister:My sister: "Look Maddy, there's the baby!"Maddy: "oh...yeah, I see the baby and Granny and Daddy and Opa and Mommy.."Some kind of "Magic Mirror" sonogram, I guess.

OMG! I wouldn't let anyone see the 3D images of my baby b/c I didn't want to hear anyone say "Whoa, it's an alien" or "So, it's an eyeless monster?" But these people put it on a cake?! Wrong, wrong, wrong.

As someone who has three children (now in their teens) PLEASE let me tell you, no one thinks your ultrasound (traditional or 3-D) is cute. Technologically fascinating, perhaps, but not cute. You can lead a full, happy mother- (and father) -hood without everyone in creation getting excited as you do over your children. That being said, these cakes are sooo wreckalicious!

I had to laugh with one of your sidebar ads being for a company that does 3D ultrasounds, LOL. The image in their ad of a pregnant woman with a TV screen 3D baby on her torso looked too much like cake now...very wron to think about eating pregnant women...very wrong :)

These are wrong on so many levels. When my mother-in-law threw a shower during my first pregnancy, I flat refused to leave the house and brave the Florida in July heat for the party if there wasn't cake to eat. Had she given me that, I might have had a psychotic break.

Ewwwwwww comes to mind. Thanks to the commentary about the filling, another ewwwwww comes to mind. I have to wonder if the person you ordered the cake realized what the end product would look like and if they were happy with the results? Hopefully, when they picked up the cake they almost cried at the horrifying choices they made. If not, it gets another ewwwwwwww.

Ah, the ritualistic eating of the little one before it arrives! How you revolt me, let me count the ways.

What in the name of all that's holy or un is wrong with a cake that just looks like a cake? Why do we keep trying to come up with ways to represent pregnancy and childbirth in increasingly graphic ways for baby showers? WHYYYYYYYY?????????????

On the upside, you can save a bundle, since so many people won't want a slice of that no matter how good it tastes.

Medical test results and frosting do not mix! I realize that there is a baby in the picture (at least I think that is what is looming in there) but doesn't anyone notice that blob next to the face is the interior of the mom's uterus.

People are wacky.

WV: ovemo- Please do not put your ovemo or any thing located near it on a cake.

those 3D ultrasound thingies really creep me out. they always look like creepy aliens or something. I'm sure i won't be saying that with my own baby.. lol.. but those aren't my babies. and i definitely wouldn't wanna eat a cake with them on it. Maybe they'll have placenta cakes soon enough. lol or maybe they already have them.

I think it's a tasteless idea. Not very cute or sweet or amazing at all.

If someone gave me a cake like that for my babyshower.. i admit that i would be quite upset over it.: //

Sick.

btw.. that cow fistula thing has me upset even more. WTF is up with that??!?!?! : /////

"Pink socks or blue building blocks," yay, let's start in with the gender stereotyping before the poor li'l bastige is even born! In further wreckiness, I can't even translate what the glob up above "pink" is meant to say.

Why . . . why . . . WHY in the name of all that is good and decent and holy would people think it's a good or cute idea to SLICE up and EAT a picture of a baby?! I have a problem with photo cakes in general for the same reason, but to use an ultrasound pic ups the creep factor about 100x.

Should I ever reproduce and don't have the good judgement of my Mom or sister to order my shower cake, I think I'll be doing it myself!

OMG. That is just wrong. How to wrecks like this continue to be created in light of modern technology. Don't all decorators know dang good and well they might end up here if they make something hideous???

You know what's coming next... Thanks to 3D sonograms, it won't be long until you can get a shower cake shaped like the unborn fetus. You can already get a model to work from: http://tinyurl.com/l7unba

I must say those cakes would certainly help my diet along nicely. Hmmm... would I like a slice of breast or a baby head? I think I'll pass on both thanks. And if they showed the cake before lunch, bonus points for lack of calories because I'd be skipping lunch too!

Duuuuuuuude. That's just....NARSTY. (My preggo semi-roomie, the other night, took a not-quite-normal joy in showing me her also-expecting friend's Myspace page, upon which she had posted the latest ultrasound results, because "Look! You can totally see the penis! I mean...this kid is gonna be HUNG!" (In fairness, if it WAS in fact the organ she claimed it to be, there DID seem to be a certain...disproportion, which raises two questions: for the mother-to-be, "Why would anyone want to thoroughly embarrass their child before it was even born?" And for my roomie: Why--for the love of all things--would this be the sort of thing you would think I, especially, would need or wish to see? This incident and its attendant conversation finally, at last, cemented in my mind the certainty: pregnancy has clearly driven this girl around the bend, which was a short trip in any case.)

That last cake made me giggle, although I was hoping to be the first one to come up with a Teletubby reference. Tinky Winky, Dipsy, Laa Laa, Po, and Oops! (as in Oops, wasn't expecting THAT pregnancy!) Alas, I was beaten to the punch by several fine Wreckers. Ah, well, at least I didn't say anything about Space Station Whatever-it-Was, right? :)

I have been having fun sending "suggestions" for baby shower cakes to my neice : ) , who will be having a baby. I thought the baby baked into the cake was the greatest--till I saw these today. YOWZA!!!!

Oh, and a sidenote: I have a 4-D sonogram image of my baby framed. Also, over the months of waiting for baby I would look through the album I had of 4-D images and sigh with adoration of my baby's beauty. cc(This is not a joke)

I just went to a cousin's baby shower last week, and she had one of these. Of course, I ended up with a sonogram piece of cake. I couldn't eat it. I don't gross out easily, but damn. That was disgusting.

Those 3-d sonogram cakes are,, ugh I don't even have the proper phrasing to comment on these monstrosities. Those pictures remind me of the horrible anti-abortion pictures that they used to scare us with in Catholic school. It takes a lot for me to pass up cake; but there's no way I'd eat that

Uhhh...yeah...thank goodness I am past my pregnancy years! If I see this type of cake at any of the baby showers I'm attending, I am so out of there- and taking my gift with me. Bring back the carrot jockeys- please!!!

Although, great way to really put your kids into therapy when you pull out their baby book.

Does it bother anyone else that ALL of these images also include...(drum roll, please)...a woman's UTERUS!!! "Yep, that's where all the magic happened. Too bad they couldn't include the fallopian tubes in this one. Hand me a fork." And we're supposed to eat that!

The airbrushed cake with the cracked icing looks like stretch marks...what every emotionally turbulent mom-to-be (not to mention the guests) wants to see in the midst of a gathering of friends, family or, God-forbid, co-workers...EEEK!

HA! Now I really, really want to find a sonogram of something gross like a tumor, and have it put on a cake. Because seriously, sonograms don't look like ANYTHING. Especially not anything I'd want to be overjoyed about.

love these cakes! i just cannot believe that people actually order these. and the bakers MAKE them! do you think some of them are filled with raspberry to replicate placenta? or cream AND raspberry? ok. i'm grossing myself out here. i also love that the ad at the top of this post is for Babies R Us!

This has given me a wonderful (terrible) idea. I have some friends who have children. There is an ultrasound image of their first child making the Vulcan hand sign in the womb. When this kid (who is about to be five) turns 16 or so, I'm totally putting that image on a cake for him.

Oh wow...I missed this post this morning and now I'm sitting here with kids in the room thinking, "Do I dare scroll back through?" Yeah...sonograms are only cool when they're yours, or a friend or relatives. And I think I'm being generous there. I remember a whole lot of screaming from my sister before my niece was born. "It's a FACE! CAN'T YOU SEE HER FACE?"

Little pink socks or blue building blocks, indeed.Might as well put "Little Future MOMMY or WORKIN' MAN" !!I DO see a way out for these horrors, though: sell them at Weight Watchers places.I can see it now:

TAKE ONE HOME TODAY! *See amazing weight loss in mere days! *You don't even have to eat it--just LOOK at one before meals!

[Warning: Side effects may include complete and utter loss of appetite, nausea, nightmares and an irrational (or not) fear of babies.]

At my sister's baby shower, we had a cake like this. Except we didn't use one of those freaky 3D pictures (which are the yellow-tinted ones); we used a picture of the traditional angle, and while I had some qualms about eating my niece, it actually came out pretty nicely.

And then I remembered that I was eating my niece, and I felt a bit guilty.

"these new 3D sonograms look like they were directed by M. Night Shyamalan."

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You really should've put a beverage warning on this post. My monitor and keyboard would've been splattered if I'd had anything in my mouth. 'Nudist with a skin condition' makes this entry doubly worthy of a beverage warning.

I disagree that 3-D ultrasounds are creepy. Now, on a cake, very tacky, just like ANY photo of a person is on a cake!

These 3-D ultrasounds are breathtakingly beautiful! These babies are in the womb and we see them as that –babies, not tumors or a part of the mother. These 3-D images are the best argument anyone could possibly have for being pro-life.

please have one iota of compassion for the mother of this baby! This is her child, actual photos of HER CHILD and you are all ripping on them! I'm sure if you had similar photos of your unborn baby you would see only an innocent gorgeous child...

Call me old fashioned, but if I were pregnant, I would not want to even have a sonogram, much less put it on a cake. I'll wait to see my baby when it's born, thanks. But I have to admit I loved the last one. I mean, not as an example of cake perfection, but because, you can tell the woman is deliriously happy, or else there's something else in those prenatal vitamins.Erin G.

My sister-in-law's shower cake had her sonogram picture on it. As if black, white, and gray icing isn't appetizing enough as it is, the cake had raspberry filling. They were hacking up this baby cake with red goo oozing out...I'd never met a cake I couldn't eat before!

Why? WHY did someone come up with these (other than to provide some fodder for CW, of course)?

First, parents make Facebook profiles for their unborn children using sonogram pictures. I don't agree with it, but fine. But...cake? Really? Who wants to cut into a fetus (and/or pregnant woman) and devour it?

Forget pro-life, I'm too terrified now to even CONSIDER having kids! If someone suggested one of these for a baby shower, I'd ask if they'd left their brain in the sewer. I don't think some women need therapy on top of rollercoaster hormones, back pain, pre-eclampsia, and anything else they might already be facing.

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